All right, Alexander, let's talk about the phone call initiated by France.

That's important between the French defense minister Le Corneux and the Russian defense

minister Sergegeshoegu.

What was this call about?

The Russian readout, the Russian readout.

The Russian readout says they talked about a peace negotiation, which is interesting.

They discussed French troops in Ukraine, or at least Shoygoo warned France about troops in

Ukraine.

The French readout says that they discussed

ISIS and the terrorist attack and how they're upset with Russia, which is claiming that France

might have had something to do with it. So that's what the French readout says. And the French

readout says there was no talk about negotiations, specifically negotiations based on Turkey, 2022, the borders

from the negotiations in Turkey in 2022.

France is denying all of it.

What are your thoughts on the telephone?

I believe the Russians here.

I should add that the Russian readout is borderline rude.

I mean, it's one of the most,

if that was one of those scathing readouts I've ever seen.

I mean, it's incredibly short and, you know, stiff.

And it starts by saying, you know, that, you know, Shoygu responded to this urgent call from the

French, repeated attempts by the French to call him, which in itself is significant, by the way.

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